sequor

From Proto-Italic *sekʷōr, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Cognates include Sanskrit सचते (sácate) and Ancient Greek ἕπομαι (hépomai).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.kʷor/, [ˈsɛ.kʷɔr]

sequor (present infinitive sequī, perfect active secūtus sum); third conjugation, deponent

1. (with accusative) I follow, come or go after.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 3.188:

     Cēdāmus Phoebō et monitī meliōra sequāmur.

     Let us yield to Phoebus, and having been warned follow better things.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.20:

     Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.

     I see, and I desire the better: I follow the worse.

   • 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder :

     Rem tene, verba sequentur.

     Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

• secus
• socius

• Vulgar Latin: *sequio (see there for further descendants)

• sequor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sequor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sequor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to follow in any one's steps: vestigia alicuius sequi, persequi or vestigiis aliquem sequi, persequi
    
  • to court a person's favour; to ingratiate oneself with..: gratiam alicuius sibi quaerere, sequi, more strongly aucupari
    
  • to be a lover of ease, leisure: otium sequi, amplexari
    
  • to adopt some one's opinion: ad alicuius sententiam accedere, sententiam alicuius sequi
    
  • to try to conjecture probabilities: probabilia coniectura sequi
    
  • my intention is..: id sequor, ut
    
  • to be guided by another's example: auctoritatem alicuius sequi
    
  • to be a follower, disciple of some one: sectam alicuius sequi (Brut. 31. 120)
    
  • it follows from this that..: sequitur (not ex quo seq.) ut
    
  • to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit)
    
  • to strive to attain virtue: virtutem sequi, virtutis studiosum esse
    
  • to follow fixed principles of conduct: certas rationes in agendo sequi
    
  • to embrace the cause of..., be a partisan of..: alicuius partes (causam) or simply aliquem sequi
    
  • to be neutral: neutram partem sequi
    
  • to follow the standards: signa sequi (opp. a signis discedere, signa relinquere)